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FROM THE WEST SACRAMENTO NEWS-LEDGER — AUG 1, 2012 – The office of Senator Barbara Boxer announced last month that she had introduced legislation to create a 319,000-acre “Berryessa Snow Mountain Conservation Area” from a region that spans the counties of Yolo, Lake, Mendocino and Napa. “The Berryessa Snow Mountain region is one of California’s [...]

FROM THE WEST SACRAMENTO NEWS-LEDGER – The annual “National Night Out” returns on Tuesday. West Sacramento police and local neighborhood blocks will get together for block parties with a crime-fighting message. If past years are any indication, there will be visits from police, K-9 units, military personnel and other special guests at many of the [...]

FROM THE WEST SACRAMENTO NEWS-LEDGER — AUG 1, 2012 – Firefighters and police responded on July 17 to the 500-block of Laurel Lane, after a citizen reported what appeared to be a bundle of dynamite behind some garbage cans next to his home. From the street, firefighters could see the bundle “with what appeared to [...]

NEWS-LEDGER — JULY 25, 2012 By Steve Marschke, News-Ledger Editor A number of seats for West Sacramento city office and local school board will be on the ballot on November 6. Voters will be asked whether to return Christopher Cabaldon for another two-year term as mayor, and whether to give city council members Bill [...]

From the West Sacramento News-Ledger Deadline for a City of West Sacramento video contest has been extended to Sept. 6. Prizes include an iPad 2 and $300 gift cards from West Sacramento businesses. Make a short video (three minutes or less) “telling or showing…what you like about West Sacramento.” The video can be about living, [...]

From the West Sacramento News-Ledger By purchasing solar voltaic systems, solar thermal equipment or other energy efficiency measures in a group, you can save money. Deadline to enroll is Aug. 7 for the program offered by Local Governments for Sustainability USA. As of Friday, 156 Yolo County members had signed up, approaching the goal [...]

FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — JULY 25, 2012 – The folks who fight West Nile Virus every summer by attacking the mosquito population report that no aerial spraying is planned at this time in the Sacramento-Yolo area — but low intensity ground spraying is underway from time to time. The Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito & Vector [...]